Sentences with phrase «genteel country»

Exquisite Hamptons inspired genteel country retreat!

Perks of staying at this genteel country resort (just off southeastern Georgia's Atlantic coast) include private butlers and access to three legendary golf courses — complete with marsh and St. Simons Sound views, as well as a roaming bagpiper in the evenings.

Not exact matches

Cosgrove has a country - doctor sensibility — his manner is genteel and old - fashioned, and his accent is so upstate New York it might as well be Canadian.

My father next persuaded me to study theology at Cambridge in preparation for a genteel life as a country vicar.

The Nicklebys have been living a genteel and prosperous country life, until their father dies, leaving his two children and wife to fend for themselves.

One of the most genteel and enjoyable vintage events in the country is the annual Lime Rock Park Historics.

Holzer's staggering typographic light projections exposed the site's military history, bringing the brutality of war to the quintessential English genteel establishment: the historic country house.

It is clear from his correspondence that Napoleon was envisaging some sort of genteel retirement like that of his brother Lucien, who was living in a country house under the supervision of a single police inspector; but this was never realistic, and the captain of the Bellerophon wrote specifically «I have no authority to agree to any such arrangement... I can not enter into any promise as to the reception he may meet with» [from the British Government]; Napoleon decided to surrender nevertheless.